Lamp-burner.



No. 784,092. PATBNTED MAR. 7, 1905. A. P. WOODWARD.

LAMP BURNER.

APPLIOATIGN FILED Nov. '1, 1904.

mwa V irren Patented March 7, 1905.

PATENT @Frisia LAWIPMHURNEH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,092, dated March '7, 1905.

' Application filed November '7, 1904. Serial No. 231,640.

To all whom zit 'nt/ty concer/L.'

' ing my improvements applied thereto.

Be it known that I, Aries P. W ooDWARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Franklin, county of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Lamp- Burners, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to lamp-burners, and has for its object to provide a novel lampburner which may be used with or without a reflector, as desired. In most lamps with which reflectors are used the reflectors are either an integral non-detachable part of the lamp itself or are carried by the bracket in which the lamp is supported. The lamps of the first type have the disadvantage that the reflector' cannot be removed, and therefore the lamp must always be used with the reflector. Sometimes this is an inconvenienceas, for instance, when it is desired that the light from the lamp should shine in all directions. The lamps ofthe second type also have the disadvantage that since the reflector is 1made a part of the bracket which supports the lamp it cannot be used in any other location than where the bracket is employed.

In making' my improvements I have devised a novel form of lamp-burner which can be used on any ordinary lamp, whether portable or non-portable, and which is provided with means for detachably supporting a rc- I'lector.

In a lamp embodying' my invention the re flector is detachably supported directly by the burner and can be used or not, according as desired.

In the best form of my inventionnow known to me I provide the base of the burner itself with a laterallyprojecting reliectorsupporting member, which is provided with means for detachably supporting the reflector.

In the drawings I have shown one or two embodiments of my invention, and Figure l illustrates a perspective view of a burner hav- Fig. 2 is a side View of the burner shown in Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a section on the line a' a'.

3 designates the dome of an ordinary lampburner; 2, the base-flange, on which said dome rests; 4, the screw-threaded neck depending' from the said flange 2 and by means of which the lamp-burner is screwed into the oil-font of a lamp, and 5 the usual spring holding-fingers, by means of which the lamp-chimney is held. These parts may be of any suitable or usual construction and form no part of my present invention.

My improvement consists in forming such a burner with means either integral or rigid therewith for detachably supporting a reflector, and in the form of the invention herein illustrated such means comprises a reliectorsupporting member which is formed as a part of or as rigidly seemed to the base-flange 2 of the burner and which forms an extension of said fiange.

As shown in the drawings, the fiange 2 is provided with an extension or shelf (i, which may be either' integral with said flange or rigidly secured thereto and which is provided with a plurality of reflector-holding pins 7. 8 designates the reflector', which maybe of any suitableor usual construction, and it has at its lower end apertured bosses l0, which are adapted to fit over the holding-pins 7, thereby to sustain the reflector in its proper' position.

The reflector herein shown is shaped to form an aperture at its upper end 9, through which the chimney projects; but this type of reflector is not essential to the invention.

The burnerherein illustrated may be used without a reflector, if desired, since the rellector is detachably secured to the reflectorsupporting extension 6.

One point about the invention which I desire to emphasize is that the base-flange 2 of the burner is provided with an extension on which the reflector-supporting' pins are mounted, and such extension forms part of the burner itself. The extension herein shown is in the form of a shelf or ridge; but this particular form of extension is not essential to the invention.

It wilf be understood, therefore, that various changes may be made in the construction of the parts Without departing from the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I Claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters i base-ange, and reflector-supporting pins car- IO Patent, isa ried by said extension.

l. A lmnp-burner having a base-Harige and In testimony whereof I have signed my name a dome resting` thereon, said base-flange havto this specication in the presence of two sub- 5 ing rigid therewith 2L lateral refeotor-supportscribing witnesses.

ing' extension. AMOS I. I/VOODIVARD.

2. In a lmnp-burner, a base-ange, as 2, a Witnesses: dome supported thereby, a lateral refector- LOUIS C. SMITH,

supporting extension rigidly secured to the EMILY C. HoDGEs. 

